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A way to markup times so that display can be based on timezones
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Author: shreevatsa.public

Description:
It would be nice if there is a way to specify times on a wiki page in such a way
that users see it in their own timezones. That is, I'm suggesting a new markup
syntax, so that users will see a time as either "December 26, 2005 01:47 GMT" or
"December 25, 2005 19:47 EST" (or something like that) depending on the timezone
in their preferences.

I was told on IRC that this would not be a desirable feature for something like
Wikipedia (having user preferences prevents caching), but it should be a simple
matter to implement, and other low-traffic sites using MediaWiki will benefit
from it, IMHO.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:10 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.
• bzimport set Reference to bz5347.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Mar 25 2006, 1:01 PM
• bzimport added a comment.Mar 25 2006, 5:03 PM

robchur wrote:

Having user preferences does not prevent caching.

• brooke added a comment.Mar 26 2006, 12:52 AM

Timezone-based preferences would multiply space requirements for caching (or reduce the number of pages
which can be held in cache), so I would still be pretty leery of it.

This can be done with a tag extension and doesn't require core code changes.

• brooke added a comment.Jun 6 2011, 9:56 PM

Adding bug 19992 (JS client-side date formatting) as a dependency, as this is the most likely way to actually handle flexible date formatting (doesn't break parser cache, doesn't break HTTP cache, and allows even anonymous users with no login information to use their computer's timezone settings with no manual intervention).

mxn mentioned this in T122759: Wrap 4-tilde and 5-tilde timestamps in <time>.Jan 3 2016, 9:11 AM
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Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:01 AM
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Pppery edited projects, added MediaWiki-Parser; removed MediaWiki-Page-editing.Oct 18 2025, 11:18 PM
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